] I just did a six-novel search, and Northanger Abbey is apparently the only book that refers to novels (by the word "novel"), horrid or otherwise. Does anyone happen to know if a character in one of JA's other works makes reference to a novel by title, or is NA the end of the line?

I've got no time to type up more than a bit, but the ridiculous young Sir Edward in Sanditon is satirised for his obsession with novels so lurid that they have determined him to embark on a course of seduction! However, his would-be victim sees through him, and the narrator dryly comments that Clara, "had not the least intention of being seduced."

LOL. I've also always laughed aloud at the following lines: